To the intellectual insomniac currently watching a suspense/drama at 2:30 am : at that volume, and with your speakers practically on your balcony, i’m at least a floor up in our building, and on the opposite end of my apartment, but all i hear are the constant, muffled bass tones of the manly dialogue and the soundtrack’s annoying interjecting string ensemble …
sounds like i’d have better luck falling back asleep if i was watching it. you just made waking up to piss the worst instictive judgement of my entire week.
—Read A. Book
This article appears in May 14-20, 2009.
This sounds like the people who live below me, they do the same thing. They don’t work, and they’re younger so I think mommy and daddy support them, but after I complained to el Landlord, it seemed to stop. Mind you I was calling the landlord at 10 or 11 pm, which they didn’t like, but I didn’t like losing sleep, so…
You should stick your head out the window and howl like a dog untill they turn it down.
The people across the hall used to do this — we share a wall (yay corner unit!) and they had their surround sound on the shared wall. I’d give them a friendly knock when they’d have it too loud (I live in a fucking concrete building, yet my walls would shake ffs), and they’d turn it down….but then it would be the same thing two days later….so I started knocking more aggressively as soon as they started that shit up and it would become less and less frequent, until recently when they started their shit up again. After a call to the super and some even angrier knocks (and thoughts of printing out the noise by laws and highlighting the applicable by law and penalty and sticking it under their door) they moved their fucking surround system to the other effing wall.
No problem with noise after that…it’s been at least a few months and you can hear it in the hallway, but nadda in my apartment.
Anyway, why not knock on their door and tell them to stfu? These people wouldn’t answer the door, but they got the hint so that’s all that matters.
Earplugs and a really loud alarm clock. Problem solved.
Not when you can feel the bass.
Sometimes you can feel the bass.
I find competing with the noise takes care of that problem….at least it did when I lived with a guy who’s bedroom and mine shared a wall and he decided to have a party in his room one night. My bed was literally shaking and I didn’t have it up against that wall! So I went into the den between our rooms and turned up the tv all the way and when the guy’s friend asked me why the hell I had the tv up so loud I yelled at him (I was sick too! I had the flu AND I had asked them to turn their shit down).
They STFU after that and apologized for days afterwards. heh. I guess I have a knack for making people feel guilty 😛